The Cure kicked off the much anticipated Shows of a Lost World Tour last night in New Orleans with deep cuts they haven’t played since the ’80s, new tunes, and classics.
Robert Smith and his merry men reeled off 29 tunes from a dozen off their discography and five from their forthcoming album which the tour is named after. One of those new tunes, “Alone” is how the band opened the show at the 18k capacity Smoothie King Center next door to the Superdome.
They closed the first set with another yet-to-be released track, the lush and dramatic “Endsong.”
For their first encore the band performed “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” a new tune about the death of Smith’s brother, Richard. Of the 30 times they’ve played this emotional number, this is the place they seem to like it in the set: as the first encore of many. Once the song concluded, the band began digging deep.
Beginning with “Want” from Wild Mood Swings, the Cure broke out “A Thousand Hours” from their deep catalogue, a slow, plodding, pleading, heart-wringing tune from their double album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me they haven’t played for 36 years.
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